تمثلات الهوية في تراث الجاحظ : دراسة في ضوء النقد الثقافي == Identity Exem plifications in Al - Jahiz,s Heritage : a study from a cultural criticism perspective
Author name:
مريم عبد النبي عبد المجيد
Supervisor name:
احمد حياوي السعد
General topic:
Arabic Language and Literature
Specific topic:
Language
Degree:
Doctorate
University:
University Of Basrah - College Of Literature - Department Of Arabic Language
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Basrah
First pages:
01T5021 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Identity represents a feature or certain features of another corresponding entity or entities. In fact, identity is a controversy among many philosophers, scholars and creativists. Thus, it represents the individualistic and collective belonging, and its configurations behave according to the nature of this belonging and the incurred changes. This study examines the potential values in categorizing the identities in the traditional Arabic heritage as exemplified by Al - Jahiz discourse in light of the cultural criticism approach and its connection with the cultural patterns of the Arabic society. It also studies the realizations, manifestations and the old roots of identity which dates back to remote times and deeply - rooted within other peoples, civilizations and religions.There is a detection of its danger in transmitting the meanings of ignorance, exile, exclusion, booing and atonement on the part of the other who is ethno - and religion - deviant. These meanings have their consequences which feed the seeds of arrogance, enmity, hatred, conflict and segregating the Ego from the Other. In addition to these, there is the breaking of the bonds of peace and love with planting the seeds of rupture and distortion in society and among nations and religions. Al - Jahiz,s discourse is associated with categorizing identities and its manifestations in relation to the Ego and the Other, or ,We, and ,They,. Identity was a basic concept in his writings, and he has a wide readership and his works were highly culturally consumed from past time till nowadays. Since the appearance of printing, his works have still been reproduced in elegant copies celebrating it as a typical example of literature and a first - degree pedagogic, cultural material, which is rarely absent from the curricula from the Gulf to the Ocean. This study is of three chapters with a prelude on (Al - Jahiz,s Discourse and its Exemplifications of Identity).The basic dimensions constituting Al - Jahiz,s discourse of exemplifying identity with its implied patterns that are also associated with the cultural Arabic realizations have been discussed. The first chapter also included studying the moral and the physical identity seen as the basis of recognizing the Self and the Other.The researcher has accounted for Al - Jahiz,s exemplifications and views ofmen and women identities and those of biological disabilities. In the second chapter, the religious identity has been studied. In its first section, the realizations of Muslim identities have been examined together with its phenomena and consequences uncovering a serious side of the Mu,tazila thought and their views of the Other having different dogmas. In the second section, the researcher the identity of the Jews, Christians and the Magi as manifested in Al - Jahiz,s perspective of the different - religion Other, together with what is implied in this perspective of meanings such as exile, exclusion, the moral and physical mocking. The third chapter examines the ,international identity, where the researcher studies the pstterning values in Al - Jahiz,s discourse reflecting subliming, favouring and devaluing in the context of identifying the identity of the Arabs, Persians, the Turks, the Sudanese from both positive and negative sides. After that, there is a conclusion chapter with summarizing the most important results arrived at. Then, references finalize this study.
